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LLCOHOL    QUESTION 

'HE  ONLY  WAY  TO  SETTLE  IT 


BY 

W.  S.  ("SAM")  LEAKE 

Author  of  "The  Healing"  of  'Sam'  Leak.-" 


WHAT  I  KNOW  ABOUT 

*L-:_=  THE 

ALCOHOL    QUESTION 

THE  ONLY  WAY  TO  SETTLE  IT 


BV 
W.  S.  ("SAM")  LEAKE 

Author  of  "The  Healing  of  'Sam'  Leake" 


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COPYRIGHT,  1914 
BY  W.  S.  LEAKE 


PUBLISHED,  MAY,  1914 


What  I  Know  About  The 
Alcohol  Question 


What  do  I  know  personally  about 
alcohol  and  its  abuses?  Everything  a 
man  can  know  and  survive.  The 
story  has  already  been  told  and  need 
not  be  repeated.  If  I  understand  the 
signs  of  the  times,  what  the  world  is 
seeking  is  a  hope,  a  promise,  a  solu- 
tion— not  an  unpleasant  retrospect. 

People  acquire  first  a  taste  for 
liquor  which  results  in  the  disease  of 
drunkenness,  primarily  to  get  away 
from  some  condition  in  their  lives. 
Very  few  have  a  natural  liking  for 
alcohol.  Nature  has  kindly  made  the 
flavor  of  alcohol  abhorrent  and  its 
effect  on  the  beginner  indescribably 


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distressing.  The  taste  has  to  be  pain- 
fully cultivated — acquired.  Why  then 
do  we  see  young  men,  almost  boys, 
gagging  over  their  whiskey  or  beer? 
To  get  away  from  something,  from 
their  adolescence,  from  their  un- 
fledged condition.  Nearly  every 
youth  of  eighteen  or  nineteen  has  a 
consuming  ambition  to  be  rated  as  a 
man.  It  happens  too  often  that  they 
attempt  to  reach  a  man's  dignity 
by  copying  his  vices.  They  cannot 
grow  whiskers  ahead  of  time,  but 
they  can  swagger  up  to  a  bar  and 
counterfeit  familiarity  with  things 
beyond  their  years.  Were  it  not  for 
this  fatal  inclination  to  ape  their 
elders,  not  one  boy  in  ten  thousand 
would  have  any  more  inclination  for 
alcohol  than  for  quinine  or  castor  oil. 
This  is  one  of  the  numerous  respon- 


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sibilities  that  elder  topers  cannot 
dodge.  It  also  brings  into  the  light 
the  awful  temptation  that  undis- 
guised indulgence  in  intoxicants  of- 
fers to  inexperienced  youth. 

All  through  life,  the  story  is  the 
same — just  an  effort  to  get  away  from 
oneself.  The  man  broken  down  with 
overwork  seeks  to  conquer  the  sense 
of  fatigue  after  his  daily  toil,  by  a 
bracer  or  two.  The  man  beset  with 
business  troubles  separates  himself 
from  them  for  a  few  hours  by  indulg- 
ing in  a  half  do£en_stiff  jcockjjtils.  The 
man  unhappy  in  domestic  life  seeks 
a  rejrngdyjiy  a  nightxiGLwlttLthe  boys. 
Last  of  all,  the  confirmed  drunkard, 
above  all  others,  seeks  to  efface  him- 
self for  a  few  hours  from  his  pitiable 
condition.  I  have  examined,  not  hun- 
dreds, but  thousands  of  cases,  and  in 


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every  one  a  few  simple  questions  lo- 
cated the  underlying  cause  of  the  dis- 
ease. Ambition,  restlessness,  over- 
strain, unhappiness — anything  that 
tends  to  dissatisfaction  with  one's 
status  in  life  —  are  all  among  the 
prime  excitants  to  drinking. 

Just  one  simple  act  of  legislation 
will  end  the  dominion  of  rum.  This 
is  the  absolute  financial  divorce  of 
Uncle  Sam  and  all  his  subordinates, 
—states,  counties,  cities,  and  towns—- 
from his  ancient  running  mate, 
Booze.  Just  so  long  as  a  very  large 
part  of  the  expenses  of  the  Govern- 
ment are  paid  directly  by  alcohol,  it 
(alcohol)  will  have  staunch  friends 
in  the  highest  councils  of  every  delib- 
erative body.  Wherever  it  is  given 
full  swing,  it  pays  more  than  one- 
fifth  our  total  taxation.  Property, 


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wealth,  interests,  all  with  seeming 
pertinency  ask,  "If  we  abolish  the 
liquor  revenues,  where  do  we  get 
off?"  This  argument  is  not  made  in 
the  open.  But  silent  gratitude  for 
burdens  of  government  lifted  from 
the  shoulders  of  others,  is  alcohol's 
strongest  asset — the  one  line  of  de- 
fense that  protects  it  from  annihi- 
lation. 

Those  who  look  kindly  on  John 
Barleycorn  for  the  enormous  reve- 
nues he  produces,  which  revenues 
they  so  cheerfully  pay,  never  reckon 
up  the  other  side  of  the  balance  sheet. 
They  shut  their  eyes  to  what  it  costs 
them  in  prisons,  almshouses,  lunatic 
asylums,  wrecked  lives,  lowered  man- 
hood, ruined  homes,  and  general  ef- 
ficiency impaired  to  an  extent  start- 
ling if  we  knew  the  truth.  It  may  be 


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asserted  conservatively  that  seventy- 
five  per  cent  of  the  male  workers  in 
every  large  city  are  materially  worse 
for  the  wear  because  of  alcohol. 
While  a  large  proportion  of  them 
would  not  be  classed  as  drunkards, 
they  are  not  at  their  best  either  in 
mind  or  body,  through  the  use,  or 
rather  the  abuse,  of  rum. 

My  plea  is  to  let  alcohol  stand  by 
itself.  I  would  accept  no  favors 
from  it,  neither  would  I  strong-arm 
it.  I  have  no  faith  in  local  option, 
high  license,  or  even  prohibition,  for 
all  these  things  mean  force,  and  force 
has  ever  been  met  with  resistance. 
But  if  alcohol  could  once  be  shown 
in  all  its  hideous  nakedness — not  as 
a  vast  distributer  of  funds  to  govern- 
ment— but  as  the  universal  scourge 
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rise  to  such  a  height  that  the  seeming 
power  of  alcohol  could  not  withstand 
it.  Those  who  would  cry  out  the 
loudest  in  indignation  at  such  a  pro- 
ceeding would  be  the  tax-paying  in- 
terests that  now  give  liquor  its  sole 
effective  support. 

When  public  opinion  is  thus  clari- 
fied, it  will  be  no  more  difficult  for  a 
young  man  to  avoid  liquor  than  it  is 
for  him  to  avoid  strychnine  and  cyan- 
ide to-day. 

Until  the  time  comes  when  the 
legislatures,  national,  state  and  local, 
decline  to  license  alcohol  to  go  out 
and  kill,  I  shall  have  no  faith  at  all  in 
the  value  or  permanence  of  any  kind 
of  settlement  that  may  be  proposed. 

The  attitude  of  our  national  gov- 
ernment with  regard  to  liquor  bor- 
ders on  the  grotesque.  On  the  one 


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hand  the  government  is  a  stern  moral- 
ist. Long  ago  liquor  was  banished 
from  the  canteens.  Civil  Service  offi- 
cials have  been  practically  under 
total  abstinence  rules.  On  top  of  that 
comes  the  sweeping  order  of  Secre- 
tary Daniels  forbidding  the  use  or 
the  presence  of  liquor  on  ships  of  the 
United  States.  But  how  about  the 
proletariat? 

"Bottled  in  bond"  is  one  of  Uncle 
Sam's  most  alluring  and  valuable  as- 
sets in  advertising  his  whiskey. 
"Bottled  in  bond"  is  equivalent  to 
saying,  "Come  on  boys,  drink  all  you 
want,  it  is  good  for  you;  it  was  bot- 
tled in  my  warehouse.  It  is  not 
good  for  the  men  in  my  navy  because 
it  poisons  them  and  destroys  their 
usefulness  as  defenders  of  my  coun- 
try, but  you  must  drink  it  because  we 


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need  your  money  to  build  more  bat- 
tleships, and  support  the  navy  and 
army  and  some  of  the  civil  depart- 
ments." If  an  individual  were  to  en- 
gage in  such  deception  as  this  he 
would  promptly  be  arrested  and 
prosecuted. 

There  must  be  drunkenness  among 
the  officers  and  men  of  the  navy  or 
there  would  be  no  necessity  for  the 
proclamation  making  the  navy  dry. 
What  then  is  to  become  of  the  navy 
drunkard?  Will  Uncle  Sam  under- 
take to  heal  him,  or  will  he  force  him 
to  desert  in  order  that  he  may  par- 
take of  Uncle  Sam's  "bottled  in 
bond"  whiskey  without  interference? 

Uncle  Sam  is  the  sole  proprietor 
of  every  distillery  and  brewery  in  the 
United  States.  His  revenue  agents 
carry  the  keys,  authorized  to  close 


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and  open  at  will.  If  it  be  right  for 
Uncle  Sam  to  engage  in  the  produc- 
tion of  alcohol,  then  it  is  treason  to 
interfere  with  its  sale  and  consump- 
tion. 

Uncle  Sam  has  been  notified  by 
John  Barleycorn  that  unless  he  is 
given  the  right  of  way  at  the  Panama- 
Pacific  International  Exposition,  he 
will  cause  the  fair  to  be  a  failure. 
Whether  the  dog  will  allow  himself 
thus  to  be  wagged  by  the  tail,  it  will 
be  interesting  to  observe. 

To  be  consistent,  Congress  should 
pass  an  Enabling  Act  authorizing 
Uncle  Sam  to  stamp  his  whiskey  with 
the  same  emblem  placed  on  his  silver 
dollar:  "In  God  We  Trust." 

The  moonshiner  can  make  his  corn 
into  corn-dodgers,  mush,  hot  cakes 
and  hominy  unmolested,  but  Uncle 


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Sam  draws  the  line  when  it  comes  to 
mixing  it  with  other  materials,  the 
product  of  which  makes  drunk.  He 
is  the  only  one  in  the  United  States 
having  the  indisputable  authority  to 
blend  raw  materials  for  the  purpose 
of  making  a  drink  that  causes  drunk- 
enness. He  guards  this  distinction 
with  as  much  jealousy  as  a  mother 
does  her  first  born.  Why  not  have 
him  form  a  partnership  with  the 
devil  and  monopolize  the  manufac- 
ture of  all  other  poisons,  thereby 
gaining  a  further  distinction  of  sup- 
plying all  the  subjects  for  the  crazy 
houses? 

There  is  not  a  day,  an  hour,  or  a 
moment  in  which  Uncle  Sam  does 
not  violate  the  Sherman  Act.  There 
is  not  now,  nor  was  there  ever,  a  part- 
nership so  vicious  and  destructive  as 


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the  one  entered  into  between  Uncle 
Sam  and  Demon  Rum.  The  com- 
bination is  so  powerful  that  it  has 
been  able  to  drive  out  all  competi- 
tion. Even  the  individual  is  deprived 
of  the  right  of  competition  by  the 
threat  of  jail  or  death.  Until  the 
President  of  the  United  States  directs 
the  Attorney  General  to  unmerge 
Uncle  Sam  and  Demon  Rum,  there  is 
little  or  no  use  in  communities  or 
states  enacting  ordinances  and  laws. 
Compel  Uncle  Sam  to  confine  him- 
self to  legitimate  business,  and  you 
will  take  Demon  Rum  by  the  neck 
and  strangle  him  to  death.  Educa- 
tion will  accomplish  all  else  that  is 
to  be  done. 

In  a  recent  lecture  an  ex-governor 
of  one  of  the  southern  states  made 
this  statement:  "I  am  not  now  and 


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never  was  a  drunkard,  but  I  have 
been  drunk." 

Well  might  a  man  say:  "I  am  not 
now  and  never  was  a  murderer,  but 
I  have  committed  murder,"  or  "I  am 
not  now  and  never  was  a  forger,  but 
I  have  committed  forgery."  We 
should  be  honest  with  ourselves.  We 
cannot  fool  the  public  through  self- 
deception.  I  was  a  drunkard.  I  am 
now  an  ex-drunkard,  —  not  a  re- 
formed drunkard.  You  cannot  make 
imperfection  into  perfection. 

"Who  can  bring  a  clean  thing  out  of  an 
unclean?  Not  one."  (Job  14:4.) 

Let  us  not  wink  at  the  plain  fact 
of  today.  Let  us  consider  two  classes 
of  people  who  have  contact  with  this 
liquor  question  One  class  is  com- 
posed of  those  who  have  convictions 
and  the  courage  to  express  them. 


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These  are  they  who  turn  not  to  the 
right  nor  to  the  left;  who  walk 
straight  on  through  a  mass  of  stag- 
gering men,  frantic  women,  and  chil- 
dren diseased  or  disgraced,  searching 
for  something  that  will  end  it  all- 
something  that  will  take  the  stagger 
out  of  the  drunkard's  legs,  the  blear 
out  of  his  eye,  the  palsy  out  of  his 
hand,  the  stench  out  of  his  breath. 
These  people  with  the  polar  purpose 
of  discovering  a  remedy  for  all  this 
debasement  of  the  spirit  and  destruc- 
tion of  the  flesh  of  men,  make  no 
compromise. 

The  other  class  is  composed  of  the 
politicians.  So  long  as  there  are 
more  votes  in  alcohol,  they  are  ac- 
tively or  passively  for  it.  If  they 
sense  more  voting  strength  on  the 
other  side  they  assume  a  virtue  and 


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go  over  to  it,  thereby  winning  the 
hatred  of  those  they  desert  and  the 
contempt  of  those  to  whom  they  come 
as  parasites. 

It  is  to  this  tendency  that  we  owe 
the  pitiful  piffle  with  which  public 
attention  is  diverted  from  main  issues. 

Just  now  a  performance  of  this 
sort  is  made  a  headliner.  The  Sec- 
retary of  the  Navy  has  forbidden  the 
use  of  any  form  of  alcoholic  drink 
to  both  officers  and  men  on  our  war- 
ships. 

Think  of  it! 

The  United  States  Government 
lives  on  the  tax  paid  by  alcohol.  Al- 
cohol built  our  warships.  Alcohol 
bathed  their  sides  in  baptism  when 
they  were  launched.  Alcohol  pays 
their  officers  and  crews,  the  salary  of 
the  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  and  for 


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the  pen  that  wrote  his  order.  The 
alluring  Enlistment  Bureau  pictures 
'  show  officers  and  jolly  jack  tars 
drinking  toasts  to  the  dusky  beauties 
of  the  South  Sea  Islands.  The  men 
who  built  the  ships  are  the  men  who 
drank  the  government's  taxed  liquor. 
They  are  rotting  in  drunkard's  graves. 
Their  wives  are  in  the  almshouses. 
Their  daughters  are  prostitutes. 
Their  sons  are  convicts.  The  navy 
rests  on  that  foundation  —  built  by 
misery  and  transgression,  by  early 
hopes  faded,  happiness  turned  to  fes- 
tering sorrow,  childhood  without  joy, 
manhood  without  hope,  womanhood 
without  virtue.  All  that  built  the 
navy!  And  the  Secretary  writes  the 
title  clear  as  an  evangel  of  abstin- 
ence, by  forbidding  wine  to  the 
officers! 


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If  the  situation  were  not  so  serious 
it  would  be  amusing.  This  Secretary 
of  the  Navy  puts  a  bread  and  milk 
poultice  on  the  crater  of  Vesuvius 
and  enters  the  limelight,  posed  for 
applause!  But  below  the  poultice 
the  fires  and  gas  gather  for  eruption. 
The  poultice  has  not  reached  the 
cause. 

But  let  us  suppose  that  alcohol  is 
wiped  out  in  a  wholesale  outburst  of 
public  indignation.  What  then? 
Will  that  change  human  character 
and  nature?  Will  it  alter  the  im- 
pulses, the  ambitions — one  might  say 
the  instincts — that  guide  our  actions? 
Will  that  banish  unrest,  overstrain, 
unhappiness?  Will  it  banish  that  ter- 
rible desire  to  "get  away  from  one- 
self"? I  have  grave  doubts.  And 
unless  it  does,  the  victim  who  has 


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escaped  from  one  vice  runs  a  deadly 
peril  of  falling  into  another, — he  will 
seek  some  other  strong  agent  to  do 
for  him  again  what  alcohol  did. 

In  my  own  case,  ceasing  to  drink 
was  the  smallest  part  of  my  salva- 
tion. Christian  Science  alone  made 
me  immune  from  the  varied  tempta- 
tions of  life. 

To  mortal  sense  I  was  a  drunkard 
for  a  period  of  ten  years.  When,  as 
a  matter  of  fact,  I  can  truthfully  say 
that  the  real  Sam  Leake,  God's  per- 
fect, spiritual  man,  made  in  His  im- 
age and  after  His  likeness,  never  was, 
never  can  be,  and  never  will  be  a 
drunkard.  The  body,  which  in  real- 
ity is  a  myth,  was  drunk  for  ten  years, 
but  the  body  is  not  I,  but  mine. 

Drunkenness  will  exist,  legislation 
or  no  legislation,  high  license  or  no 


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license,  prohibition  or  no  prohibi- 
tion, local  option  or  no  local  option, 
until  men  and  women  realize  that 
their  bodies  are  not  themselves  but 
theirs,  and  learn  that  divine  Mind 
alone  controls  them.  How  can  men 
and  women  learn  this?  The  answer 
is  :  Through  the  teaching  and  the  un- 
derstanding of  Christian  Science. 
When  a  man  is  healed  of  drunken- 
ness through  materia  medica,  no  ef- 
fort is  made  to  change  his  thoughts 
and  no  claim  is  made  that  his 
thoughts  have  been  changed.  Chris- 
tian  Science  not  only  heals  man  of 

_  -  -  --  ---------  si 

drunkenness,  but  destroys  all  physical 
sense^of  discord,  causes  him  to  seek 
the  undivided  jrarrnent,  teachesjhim 
^  Our  lives^annot  be 


differentfrom  our  thinking. 

Over  a  hundred  years  ago  Thomas 


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Jefferson  said  that  the  nation  could 
not  survive  half  slave  and  half  free. 

Ex-Governor  Patterson,  of  Ten- 
nessee, added  that  the  nation  cannot 
survive  half  drunk  and  half  sober. 
I  add  that  a  man  or  woman  cannot 
succeed  half  bad  and  half  good.  The 
man  who  is  healed  of  drunkenness 
and  continues  in  the  old  way  of  think- 
ing, looking  upon  drunkenness  with 
gratification  and  abstaining  from  it 
through  fear  of  the  consequences,  is 
half  bad  and  half  good,  and  is  neither 
a  temperate  man  nor  a  trustworthy 
religionist. 

"I  know  thy  works,  that  thou  art  neither 
cold  nor  hot; 

I  would  thou  wert  cold  or  hot. 
So  then  because  thou  art  lukewarm,  and 
neither  cold  nor  hot, 

I  will  spue  thee  out  of  my  mouth." 

—(Rev.  3:  15,  16.) 


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Before  attempting  to  destroy  an 
evil  we  should  first  look  to  the  cause. 
Why  do  men  and  women  drink?  I 
say  that  the  object  that  impels  them 
to  drink  is  a  commendable  one — "to 
get  away  from  themselves."  If  they 
are  in  poverty  is  it  not  commendable 
that  they  should  want  to  be  prosper- 
ous? If  they  are  weak  is  it  not 
worthy  that  they  should  want  to  be 
made  strong?  If  they  feel  the  lack 
of  courage  is  it  not  laudable  for  them 
to  want  to  be  brave?  If  they  are  un- 
happy is  it  not  natural  for  them  to 
want  happiness ?  If  they  believe  they 
are  bound  by  "limitation"  is  it  not 
commendable  that  they  should  seek 
freedom?  We  could  cite  causes  in- 
definitely, but  these  are  sufficient  to 
point  out  the  fundamental  instigating 
cause  of  most  forms  and  degrees  of 


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drunkenness.  The  trouble  lies  in  the 
remedy  the  unfortunate  ones  use  - 
"Rum."  Liquor  only  gives  them  a 
temporary  sense  of  relief  from  their 
troubles.  Christian  Science  provides 
correctly  the  remedy  which  the 
drunkard  seeks  erroneously. 

Sam  Blythe  wrote  in  his  book, 
"Cutting  It  Out":  "You  have  all 
known  the  man  who  says  he  quit 
drinking  and  never  thought  of  drink 
again.  He  is  a  liar.  He  doesn't  ex- 
ist." Had  he  understood  anything 
about  Christian  Science  treatment 
this  sweeping  statement  would  never 
have  been  made.  Through  this  heal- 
ing the  desire  for  drink  is  destroyed 
and  no  man  is  healed  until  this  is 
done.  Man  does  not  leave  drunken- 
ness. Drunkenness  leaves  him. 

Christian  Science  healing,  whether 


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in  drunkenness  or  any  other  disease, 
goes  back  to  the  nature  of  man's  exis- 
tence, his  being,  for  its  foundation 
and  working  hypothesis.-  It  finds  that 
man's  being,  his  existence,  is  spiritual 
instead  of  material.  That  man  is 
spiritual  instead  of  material  was 
demonstrated  by  Jesus  when  He  rose 
from  the  dead,  or  rather,  when  He 
showed  that  what  was  called  death 
had  no  reality  nor  power.  Only  a 
spiritual  being  could  do  this,  it  be- 
ing self-evident  that  a  material  thing 
could  not  of  itself  come  back  from 
the  grave. 

Therefore  if  man's  nature  is  spirit- 
ual instead  of  material,  as  it  has  been 
shown  above  that  it  is,  he  must  be 
subject  only  to  spiritual  laws  and  con- 
ditions, not  to  physical  laws  and  con- 


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ditions.  This  is  self-evident  and  in- 
herent in  reason. 

Again,  if  man  is  subject  only  to 
spiritual  laws  and  conditions,  any 
material  or  physical  remedy  or  treat- 
ment must  necessarily  be  wholly  out- 
side the  domain  of  his  existence  and 
therefore  utterly  ineffective. 

It  may,  however,  be  asked  why,  if 
man  is  wholly  spiritual  in  nature  in- 
stead of  physical,  should  he  need 
treatment  of  any  kind?  The  answer  is 
that  he  does  not  in  reality  need  treat- 
ment of  any  kind  because  he  is  spirit- 
ual and  therefore  perfect.  The 
knowledge  of  this  fact  proves  itself 
and  constitutes  the  only  treatment 
that  there  can  be. 

What  then  is  this  drunkenness  for 
which  we  seek  a  cure?  It  is  the 
claim,  the  belief,  that  there  is  such  a 


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thing  as  a  material  man,  and  this  be- 
lief or  claim  includes  the  drink,  the 
temptation  to  drink,  the  drunkard, 
and  that  which  sees,  knows,  and  con- 
demns the  drink  and  the  drunkard. 

The  healing  for  drunkenness,  so 
far  as  there  can  be  any,  begins  with 
the  practitioner  in  that  his  only  func- 
tion is  to  have  the  true  concept  of 
man.  This  true  concept  on  the  part 
of  the  practitioner  not  only  frees  the 
man  from  the  temptation  to  drink  but 
from  the  fear  of  condemnation  of 
foes  or  friends  —  which  is,  itself,  a 
form  of  drunkenness. 

Thus  we  see  that  Chistian  Science 
and  not  the  Christian  Scientist  is  the 
healer  in  all  cases,  and  that  Christian 
Science  treatment  means  that  the 
practitioner  is  constantly  looking 
away  from  the  senses  to  his  own  and 


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his  patient's  refuge,  the  eternal  Good, 
which  is  too  pure  to  behold  iniquity. 

Christian  Science  treatment,  un- 
like all  other  forms  of  treatment,  does 
not  deal  at  all  with  personality.  It 
defines  perfection  and  imperfection 
—showing  that  one  is,  and  one  is  not, 
the  Truth.  Truth  makes  man  free — 
free  from  the  illusion  that  there  is, 
was,  or  shall  be  any  power  apart  from 
the  Mind  which  Christ  Jesus  proved 
to  be  true.  Christian  healing  means 
eternal  salvation  in  which  there  is  no 
power  to  sin  or  be  sick  and  where 
one  man  is  never  the  superior  of  an- 
other. It  is  the  new  heaven  and  new 
earth  where  God  wipes  away  all  tears 
and  man  loves  his  neighbor  as  him- 
self. 

The  difference  between  Christian 
Science  treatment  and  other  forms  of 


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treatment  is  the  difference  between 
"do"  and  "done."  Christian  Science 
treatment  finds  that  all  is  done  and 
done  perfectly.  Other  treatments 
seek  to  change  imperfection  into  per- 
fection—  which  is  manifestly  im- 
possible. 


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